DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2006

2010

1992

Current release

V12

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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